00029: my timetable....

6:30   a.m    get up

6:45   a.m    breakfast 

7:10   a.m    leave home for the office

7:36   a.m    on the metro bus

8:10   a.m    arrive at People's Square

8:30   a.m    arrive at office and start working

11:30 a.m    lunch

12:00 p.m    reading newspaper or playing Plants VS Zombies

12:40 p.m---1:25 p.m  have a nap

1:30 p.m      work

5:15 p.m      leave the office and go back home

5:40 p.m      take on the metro bus

6:15 p.m      reach gym and start swimming

7:00 p.m      finished swimming and bathing

7:20 p.m      arrive at home

7:30 p.m      dinner (with my parents)

8:15 p.m      learning English or reading books

9:00 p.m      blogging on Internet

9:00 p.m      ready to sleep,listening to some music or radios or newspapers

10:30 p.m    turn off the light and go to sleep

00028: Windows 7 is coming...

    Microsoft China started to sell Windows 7 in the mainland simultaneously on October 23th, 2009. Windows 7 Home Edition  is priced at around RMB 699 Yuan, lower than the price in other countries. It is reported that it is the first time Microsoft software sells cheaper in China than other Nations. The launch of Windows 7 has attracted much attention by PC companies,technology manufacturers and customers. Lenovo said that its service system had been prepared for the launch of this new operating system.  I believe Windows 7 is welcomed by most PC companies and hardware manufacturers, as its a good opportunity for them to launch new products and eliminate old ones. It is also a good chance to push the whole electronic technology into a high level.

    However, I am still using the computer I purchased six years ago, equipped with Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz, 256MB memory, 17' inches CRT screen. The operating system of this computer is windows XP. I have never planned to upgrade to windows 7, although I am sooo shocked at the beautiful operating interface and desktop of Windows 7. I even love the transparent manus of Windows 7, which impressed me deeply. But the reason why i do not make a change may be as follows:

1. windows xp can meet most of my working and entertainment requirements

2. windows xp is much more compatible than windows 7, i supposed. New system always has some problems in computability.

3. my hardware may not meet the minimum requirements for installing windows 7

4, at last but not least, my windows xp is cracked version.  I can not upgrade to the new version.

   Although the new windows 7 is sooo attractive, the only thing I could do now is to make a wish that windows 7 can be sold well in China and win the victory in the final competition against cracked software market!!!

 

00027:Liu Xiang.....

   Liu Xiang won the first prize in Chinese National Sport on the day before yesterday. I believe many Chinese people were sitting in front of the TV sets watching and witnessing this exciting moment that time. 

   

    Liu Xiang, born and grown up in Shanghai, was famous for his breaking record in 110-meter hurldes in 2006. He set a new world record in the 110 metre hurdles, at the Super Grand Prix in Lausanne on July 11, 2006, with a time of 12.88 seconds. It was the first time Chinese people conquered other atheletes in the world track and field sports races. 

    Liu has become so popular since then. He took part in many comercial activities and was attractive toward big companies. We could always see lots of TV advertisments played by him at that time.

   However, to all of us surprise, Liuxiang quit the 110-meter hurldes in Beijing Olypics last year, which irritated some Chinese people. Some people thought he did it on purpose as he was afraid to be defeated by others. But others believe the official explaination that Liu did had some problems with his legs.

    Liu seems to be a national treasure in China now. He represents the Chinese image, speed and spirit. No matter why he quit the olympics, most Chinese people love him as much as another sports star Yao Ming  who is as a basketball sportsman in NBA. 

   Anyway, as far as I am concerned, I always marvle at his the exaggerated movements and expressions......

00026: Chung Yeung Festival

    Today is the traditional Chinese festival called Chung Yeung Festival. Chung Yeung Festival falls on the ninth day of the ninth month in the Chinese calendar. People usually take part in some tradional activities on Chung Yeung Festival, such as go climbing and eat Chung Yeung  Cake. 

   The following story is taken from the internet. 

    "Traditionally, people go climbing on the Chung Yeung Festival. This custome come into story from the Han Dynasty tells of a man named Huan Ching who was studying the immortal arts from the Taoist monk Fei Chang-fang. One Day Fei Chang-fang warned Huan Ching that, "On the ninth day of the ninth moon, great calamity will strike your home. You must quickly tell your family to sew a cloth bag and fill it with dogwood branches. This you must hold tightly in your hand and ascend to the mountain top and there drink chrysanthemum wine. If you do all of these things as instructed, you will be able to avoid disaster." Huan Ching heeded Fei Chang-fang's warning, leading his family to the mountain top on the specified day. When the family returned again at dusk, Huan Ching discovered, as the Taoist sage had warned, that all of his chickens, dogs, and sheep, and other animals had been violently slaughtered. Upon hearing this news, Fei Chang-fang went to Huan, telling him, "All of this has been done so that you may escape death!" And since that time, the customs of ascending high, drinking chrysanthemum wine, and carrying dogwood branches have all become part of the Chung Yeung Festival"

   As it's not easy for people living in cities to climb mountains, most of people choose to eat Chung Yeun Cake. Here is another story about Chun Yeung Cake I read from Internet. 

    "The tradition of eating cakes in September is originated from the ancient times. Though the name of "Gao" started from the Six Dynasties, the cakes had already existed in Han Dynasty, which was called "Er" in Chinese at that time. It is made of rice flour, which is classified into two types: paddy rice flour and millet rice four. They are streamed together, which is named "Er". In September, the millet is ripe. It is regarded as the food just in season, which is offered to ancestors as sacrifices. Chongyang Cake comes from the food just in season in September. That is why Chongyang Cake is recommended for offering sacrifices to ancestors on the day of Chongyang Festival."

    I went to a food grocery named "Shen Da Cheng" in Nanjing Road after work today, which is famous for their Chung Yeung cakes. To my surprise, I marveled at how many people lined up in front of the store when I arrived there. I finally bought a box of it. My parents were so happy when I sent them the box of Chung Yeng Cake. And I feel so relieved at the same time.

    The attached photo in this blog is the cake I bought today. 

00025: we want a job....

    I read a news on today's local newspaper. It was reported that twin sisters named Christi Bali and Kitty Bali struggled to find jobs since May last year in the United States. They have sent out hundreds of resumes on Internet and attempted to do more than 150 jobs.The twin sisters have done such jobs like waitress in a bar, mailing for the old, cutting the grass, or even helping an Animal Protectionism to bury accidentally died animals on the road. They spent most of time on Internet to grasp any job opportunities, checking mailbox and browsing craisglist frequently everyday.  However, they are still unemployment at present.

   

    The article vividly portrayed the difficulty of job seeking for new graduate students in United States. However, there was another news report drew me attention today. There are many Overseas Education Exhibition held in Shanghai and across China these days. More and more college students choose to go overseas for further study so as not to work or seek job immediately. The statistics shows that over 16 thousand student went abroad for study in 2008. And the number will be expected to reach 20 thousand in 2009. United States and Australia are two hot spots for Chinese students. 

    Frankly speaking, the employment ratio of new graduated students in Shanghai is far from satisfactory too. I talked on this topic with one of my colleague on my way home last Friday. She was graduated in the summer of this year and employed by our company several months before. She planned to be a teacher but become a salesman in our company at last. She told me most of international companies closed or stopped their employment plan on fresh graduates in China, such as Big Four Accounting Firms, Investment Banking Corp, famous Consulting Companies, which used to be attracted by lots of Chinese fresh graduate students.

    So we are all facing and suffering the negative effects on global economics recession. 

    Although I am not happy with my current, I have a job at least.......

00024: a sport competition and loving of campus....

    Today a sport competition for our company was held at a playgroud in a high school near the office building. All staff were divided into several groups to take part in different sport events, such as standing long jump, basketball, running, tug and so on. I was so excited in this sport competition, standing alongside and cheering for the athletes all the time.  I suddenly learned something from today's competition.

1, Sports have some magic which can bring all the people together.
2, We are taught to learn what is competition and trained to be much more competitive in sports,  which help us survive in this cruel society.

    As our sport event was held in a high school, it provided me a good opportunity to enjoy a short campus life again. I was deeply moved by the peace of surroundings in this school. The buildings stacked with red bricks, the yard with deep green grass, the trees swinging under slight wind, the golden sunshine casting on the grey wall.... I was absorbed myself in everything in it. All anxieties and worries for salary, social position, career, performance in work and so forth were absolutely thrown out of mind.  It seemed to exist an invisible wall between campus and society. You could just  hear your inside voice in the campus and took a breath to think about yourself at that time.....

     

00023:Swimming...

    I have to admit that swimming is an very important activity in my everyday life now. I go the the gym and swim nearly everyday. However, it is quite ridiculous that I started to swim because of a person whom I loved very much. For the purpose of forgetting something and trying to distract myself on someone, I registered a membership in a gym and started my swimming life in the end of January in 2008. It has been more than one year and a half since I started my swimming life. No matter how terrible the weather is, I always appear in the swimming pool in time everyday.

    I still clearly remember that it snowed so heavily like dog and cat in Shanghai last year, the biggest snowing which never occurred in this city before. I sticked to swim during that period of time. I was naked inside of the room and swimmed freely in the water, while I should wear thick clothes and walked on the slippy roads covering with frozen snows then. The feeling was so great!!!

    The reason I love swimming is as follows. At first, swimming is good for one's health. Secondly, it can make my body much muscular and sexy. Thirdly, persisting in swimming everyday is not a piece of cake for me. It do challenge my will and brave. At last but not least, I met up some friends in the swimming pool.

    Finally, as I was major in economics in school, I'd like to introduce the average fee in swimming in Shanghai. It cost about 20 yuan once, slightly different from different places. However, the cost can be reduced if you apply a membership in the gym which is equipped with swimming pool. It cost me about 3200 yuan in the gym named WELLNESS for a 19 month membership. If I go there everyday, the fee will only be around 6 yuan once a time. It's not very expensive yet, just as equal as to buy two cups of Coke:)

00022: If I become a millionare overnight

     I passed by a lottery booth today and glanced at some information and numbers on the board put in front of this booth's window. Although these information is none of my business, it still occurred to me the incident that one person won 88 top prizes in China several days before, amounting to about 359.9 million yuan.

    Until now can it make me believe it is a true story. Can you imagine that people  dared to buy 88 same lottery tickets of the same number at one time?!  And what coincident is that all amounts of money in the bonus stock or bonus pool is just the same as the guy who won 88 top prizes! Anyway, I have not any further proof to demonstrate my suspicion. One thing I sometimes think about these days is if i become a millionaire overnight, what I shall do next....

    If I win the top prize of the Union Lotto, I will have got nearly 4 million yuan after tax. At first, I will spend 2 million yuan to purchase a sound good department in the center area of Shanghai city. The average personal revenue per month in Shanghai is around 2500 Yuan, which means i can save about 66 years to have my own place to live.( 2000000/2500/12=66.67). Then, I will spare about 20 thousand to travel around world. To see the whole world have been one of my biggest dream since I were young.
Thirdly, I will quit my job without any hesitation. I will spend one year on going over my high school courses and plan to take the entrance examination to the university again. And this time, I will choose biology as my major rather than the economics. I have been interested and keen in animals, plants and so on for a long time even since I were a child. I will devote all my life on it after then.....

   Sigh... All above is only thing I daydreamed in my mind. I am still a ordinary people in this city, doing what I am not interested to do, earning salary which only nearly cover monthly expense of mine.....

   Holding On for Dear Life FOREVER....

00021: a new starting point

    I still can not log into blogger.com website to update my blogs today.  The website is blocked by chinese government. I try to visit and write something on Wordpress, however it is blocked too. At last, i find out nearly most of the famous Web 2.0 website such as blogger.com, Wordpress,com, Twitter, Livejournal and so on are all out of service in Shanghai, China. Fortunately, I remembered opening a service in blogger.com, which let me update my blogs via email. I wish it can work now.

    I just want to write something in English. The 5.5 point  I got in IELTS writing test did hit me a lot and break my dream away(although i got the total score in 7 point, including 8 points in reading, 7.5 points in listening, and 6 points in speaking
). I had planned to go to Autralia, but it is only a dream now.
    Why I choose to fly to Australia?! It is pity that I have not got the answer yet. The only thing I can figure out is I eagerly want to stop working, quit the job and leave the city or country I am living now.
     I met up one foreign friend in the swimming pool this evening. He is from US and being a teacher in Shanghai at present. I asked him if he likes what he is doing now. He answered yes without any hesitation. I said to him he was the most fortunate people in the world.
     On the contrary, my life and I is nothing but shit.
    
     I picked out my English learning book from bookshelf and started to go over something at home in the evening. Although the life is not like what I used to dream, I am doing something to change. Although I am not happy and satisfied with it, I am doing something to chang it. I wish today is a good starting point for me, a turning point in life. 
     I believe I will find myself one day！！！！

00021: a new starting point

    I still can not log into blogger.com website to update my blogs.  The website is blocked by chinese government. I tried to visit and write something on Wordpress, however it is blocked too. At last, i found out nearly most of the famous Web 2.0 website such blogger.com, Wordpress,com, Twitter, Livejournal and so on are all out of service in Shanghai, China. Fortunately, I remembered opening a service in blogger.com, which let me update my blogs via email. I wish it can work now.

    I just want to write something in English. The 5.5 point  I got in IELTS writing test did hit me a lot and break my dream away(although i got the total score in 7 point, including 8 points in reading, 7.5 points in listening, and 6 points in speaking
). I had planned to go to Autralia, but it is only a dream now.

    Why I choose to fly to Australia?! It is pity that I have not got the answer yet. The only thing I